[jholder]

My ideas are purely a shot in the dark, but perhaps we can filter this down.

Did you change anything else? IP address, install any new packages?

What are the permissions for the hosts file? What about IPv6? I know that it has been known to cause problems. Is SELinux off?

Is this a server with a live IP or is this all behind a NAT Firewall?

Also, Please post your /tmp/install.log.xxxx
Perhaps there will be something in there.

Thanks
john

Originally Posted by ipguru99

I get this error on upgrading from:
Release 3.1.3_GA_474.SuSEES9_20060609153405 SuSEES9 NETWORK edition

to 3.1.4. So this is a box that has been working (ok, except for the purge thing.. which led me to the upgrade).

Now the box says the /etc/hosts is broken. When I `hostname`, I get mail.xxxxxx.com. When I ping it, dig it from another server... Everything is fine with dns, from other servers. On the box itself I have no problem.

The exact error is:

ERROR: Installation can not proceeed.  Please fix your /etc/hosts file
        to contain:

          

        Where  is the ip address of the host,
         is the FULLY QUALIFIED host name, and
         is the (optional) hostname-only portion

Any help? my /etc/hosts looks just like that?

# IP-Address  Full-Qualified-Hostname  Short-Hostname
127.0.0.1       localhost
xx.xx.xx.xx  mail.xxxxxxxxxxx.com mail

Thanks!